Location:Zhū'kethara — Hall of Remembrance
Date/Time:Mid-Late Cinderfall, 9939 AZI — Night
Realm:Demon Realm
The Hall of Remembrance was quietest at night.
Not silent — the crystals never slept. They hummed in their alcoves, each one a low, persistent tone that existed below the threshold of conscious hearing but registered somewhere deeper, in the bones, in the blood, in the spiritual architecture that made a demon body resonate with the history encoded in stone. Thousands of crystals. Thousands of lives, compressed into mineral structures that held blood memory the way a riverbed held water — shaped by what had flowed through it, carrying traces of everything that had ever passed.
Ren stood alone at the d'Aar clan tree.
